I myself recently completed a successful Bodybuilding season, during which my abdominals were on display to be judged. So id like to share from my own personal experience.
During preperation for competitive body building, I transformed from 97kg to 78kg. It took 10 months to reach 'stage condition'... Want to know a secret? I never once trained my abdominal area!
The 'abs' are a muscle group, and like all muscles they can be trained. Sit ups, V-ups, mountain climbers, Russian twists and planking all form the craze that is abs training. Despite the popularity of such exercises, in my experience i have found that executing major compound weight training exercises correctly is just as affective. When you are doing weight training correctly, your abdominals are always in use and therefore are always strengthening.
Compound exercises are activities such as deadlifts, squats, lunges, bench press or leg press, and utilise more than one muscle group when added into your regime. Your core is used to stabilise the movement and ensure you correctly lift the attempted weight. In saying this, there is no harm, in fact possibly a benefit, to isolating your abdominals and training them independently.
There are many ways to shape and tone your body and everybody's body is different and responds differently to exercise. At the end of the day it is the decision of the individual to train 'abs' or not, after all they are a muscle group like any other.
As many memes across social media suggest, abs are trained the kitchen. A good diet along with training will get the results you desire.
Paul
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